Raw Food Diet
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- BannedKappa
Watch this...
Anyone here ever tried a Raw food diet?
My neighbour has started is and raves about it.
- georgesIII-1
My dad used to do it back in the 90's,
he loved it,- did he look good for his age?BannedKappa
- yeah, still sharp as hell.
he's the one that taught me honey + poivre de canelle + lemon depuration thing, I still use it when I feel like crapgeorgesIII - use it when I feel like crapgeorgesIII
- george, what is it? I didn't see it in Google anywhere.seed
- haha I definitely just tried looking it up tooAmandaLee
- canuck0
Dude looks like he's high on cocaine.
- Peter0
Oh the saves on gas/electricity and time spent cooking is fantastic, but are offset by the cost of stomach medicine and time spent rolling on the floor in anguish.
- drgsss0
What is he talking about, he looks scrawny
- hellojeehae0
dont do it.
- detritus0
Your neighbour will be dead in six months.
- auxillary0
raw food = fucking hipsters!
- whatthefunk0
from his website:
What do I eat on a daily basis?
I don't really have a strict plan or routine when it comes to my daily consumption. I eat what feels good. On most mornings i'll start with a piece of fresh fruit or two (apple, bananas, orange, grapefruit, kiwi, peach, strawberries, etc...), then I'll have a Larabar sometime mid morning. Before my workouts I usually consume a banana and some young coconut water. After my workouts I'll have another piece or two of fresh fruit - within 15 minutes of completing my workout!!! Then when i get home I'll make a smoothie with fruit and greens (kale, lettuce, collard), a few dates and some dulse (for electrolytes). Mid evening I'll chomp on another Larabar, and then I'll make a massive salad at around 7pm... it's got tons of different greens, broccoli, red peppers, radishes, avocado, celery, snap peas, mushrooms and whatever else i can find to throw in there... every day is different... but this is somewhat normal for me, and gives me all the energy I need and more.
- drgsss0
Looks alright for a 39 yo,
- Peter0
Just watched the video (didn't watch it before my earlier reply).
What a crook.
Not necessarily the diet, raw is in many cases all right, but the guy and his reasoning which seems to be just reaching for "facts" made up on the spot.
Like specialist and researchers in nutritional medicine only studying cooked food. That's just whack.
Come along the next blessed mesomorph, tooting the horn of whatever has worked for his body type as something good for the rest of the world, we might think of that as true too because the result is - right there. Or as he put it: "study this".
Bah.
Instead of "studying his" I say study sprinters. Far bigger and defined muscles. Or better yet let nutritional specialist and those pesky scientists study what our bodies need and what makes them work. Not the secret get-fit-quick scheme of some guy with a blessed physique.
It's a snake-oil salesman I say, SNAKE OIL.
- vaxorcist0
hmmm... I did a raw-food detox once about 3 years ago..lost 18 pounds in one month, then I went on a "re-tox" binge of costco pizza and optato chips and cheeseburgers and gained it all back in a week or two..
I do think the whole idea of "quit eating processed crap" is a good idea, once I can actually do it for more than a short while......
- ok_not_ok0
- HIPPIE!!!iCanHasQBN
- Phyllis?acrossthesea
- Time travel = weight loss?detritus
- Which the chick? The left one or the right one?MrMackem
- hahaha @ Phyllis!seed
- anecdotal evidence, at bestsputnik2
- whatthefunk0
I've lost 35 lbs over the last 3 months with a combination of diet and exercise. If you eat 500 less calories a day, just diet alone, you will lose close to a pound of fat a week. Combine that with exercise and you will lose more fat. Obviously everyone's metabolism and body is different but I'm not sure if a 100% raw diet would work for me, don't think I could sustain it unless, like the dude above, I started a whole website and got Larabar as a sponsor - then I guess it's more than a lifestyle, it's a business.
- acescence0
"I don't eat nuts"
Larabar ingredients: nuts
- dMullins0
I love when people throw the word detox around.
- haha, yes. I have two of portable detox units installed. I expel their waste as recyclable yellow water, into the ground.mikotondria3
- randommail0
I hate this guy and other people who feel a masochistic need to deprive themselves of normalcy and simple pleasures.
Just eat like the Japanese do. They happen to have the longest average life expectancy in the world.
- Peter0
>Just eat like the Japanese do. They happen to have the longest average life expectancy in the world.
No offense meant but hearing that gets really annoying. For several reason. Especially if you hear it almost daily, like me, as some sort of merit that trumps any argument in a discussion.
First, who is to say that one certain type of food is what makes for longer livety?
Not everything is eaten raw here. But that one or two courses is so popular around the world many seem to confuse fish served raw as some sort of standard how the rest of the dishes are prepared.Secondly, we are not talking decades here.
Dudes from 'my' country, as an example, lives only 3 months shorter than Japanese. Perhaps you should go for a Swedish diet?Believe it or not (many where I live won't. Out of patriotic needs, I'd argue, but I digress), Japanese courses are loaded with sugar. And fat.
What they do good, however, is just eating less of it all.
And hats of to them for it.
Kobayashi and gyal sone not withstanding.<rant>
Really. Check what's floating in that bowl of ramen, soba or noodles. What's the quality of the carbs in all that white rice? Even something simple as tamagoyaki, fried eggs, have almost half a dl of sugar. And a dl of sugar is what you drop in those pots that otherwise looks so healthy. What is it that makes Kobe beef that juicy if not the extra fat compared to the leaner variety found elsewhere?
</rant>Anyways,
+1 for mentioning not to deprive themselves of normalcy and simple pleasures.
- And your point is?
That Japanese food simply has sugar, carbs, and fat in it?randommail - Perhaps I weren't clear there.
"Eat less"Peter - shame their suicide rate is so fucking high.airey
- And your point is?
- Point50
I've been on a modified paleo diet for the last 8 moths, and to be honest I think I'll be eating like this for a very long time. I feel great ... it's just common sense: Avoid processed foods for the most part. There are some hardcore paleos out there but I'm not trying to give up my daily oatmeal; that's something I look forward to every day. But I've had no problem dumping pastas and breads at all. I lost 26 pounds in the first two months of changing my diet and I that was without even working out. Bottom line is to just find what fits you. It's not about eating whatever you want with a fuck it attitude, nor is it about making it a total religious experience to the point where you have to shun yourself from society just so you can eat properly ... but it is about paying attention to how your body and brain react to foods and fine tuning from there.